Also - shaming people for wanting to make money or liking money is ridiculous. Even if that’s all they are in it for, who cares if the business does something good and worthwhile that people love. I like making money. Try and shame me bro’.https://twitter.com/cyantist/status/1058381847116242945 …
AFAICT, a lot of people genuinely don't believe that value creation is a real thing that happens. They're modeling the economy in a way that has almost no overlap with reality
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It seems like a bit split between people who think value is zero sum and those who don’t.
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That's exactly right, IMO. If value/wealth/capital can only be transferred, not generated, then aggregating it *is* selfish — and aggregating it for the purpose of more efficiently allocating it toward further growth is just a self-serving lie
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That’s a big factor in cultural/political divides. A lot of people who feel (rightfully) left behind also feel like they are the only ones doing “real work” - which makes their situation feel extra unfair.
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If net value in the system didn’t increase over time, then who was hoarding all the value 50,000 years ago when most people had very precarious lives? Or 500,000,000 years ago for that matter? Perhaps a single blissed out sea sponge was greedily sucking up all the finite value?
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Go back a little further, to the first life form. If net value didn’t increase over time, their individual life experience must have been as good as the combination that of every living creature in the world today. Now that is inequality.
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